This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for embellishment

Noun

  1. Something that adorns

    2. See also:

    beautiful

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for embellishment

Noun

  1. Decoration

    2. See also:

    decoration

  2. Exaggeration

    3. See also:

    exaggeration

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • His work was overloaded with rhetorical embellishment, which he was the first to introduce into Roman history.

  • Between 1548 and 1554 rose the château d'Anet, in the embellishment of which Goujon was associated with Philibert Delorme in the service of Diana of Poitiers.

  • In 1904 a bill was passed in the chambers for the enlargement and embellishment of the palace.

  • The metallic bowl and mouthpiece of the pipe offered a tempting surface for embellishment, as well as the clasp of the pouch; and the netsuke, being made of wood, ivory or other material susceptible of carving, also gave occasion for art and ingenuity.

  • For the architectural embellishment of the city the finest building material was procurable without difficulty and in abundance; Pentelicus forms a mass of white, transparent, blue-veined marble; another variety, somewhat similar in appearance, but generally of a bluer hue, was obtained from Hymettus.

More sentences →

Words that mention embellishment in the Dictionary

Words near embellishment in the Thesaurus